"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [و‎‎٧‎٦] (٢٢٦/١٥٣)

WITH TURKISH ARABIA —1646 TO 1846.
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Government had appointed him " Political Agent in the Gulf of Persia/'
making- Kishm or Bussorah his head-quarters, and leaving a Native Agent
at Bushire. Captain Bruee was, however, informed that this arrangement
was not to have effect " until he had closed all his commercial concerns,"
in conformity with a general prohibition which had just been issued by
Government, prohibiting all Political Officers of " all ranks and descrip
tions from engaging in trade/' Captain Bruce was at the same time
informed that in consideration of his being hereafter debarred from trade,
his salary "as Political Agent in the Persian Gulf" had been fixed at
the monthly sum of liupees 1,200.
263. Captain Taylor was at the same time appointed Assistant to
the Political Agent in the Persian Gulf on the monthly salary of
Rupees 600, under a prohibition of his not engaging in trade, either on
his own account or as Agent for others.
264. On the 1st November 1822 Captain Bruce was removed
from the situation of Political Agent in the Persian Gulf in consequence
of his having entered into unauthorized Treaty with the Prince Regent of
Fars. Government took this opportunity, for the reasons explained in the
following Minute by the Hon'ble Mr. Elphinstone, dated the 31st
October 1822, to disunite, as a temporary measure, the two Agencies in
Turkish Aribia and in Persia. In consideration of the removal of our
troops from Kishm, and the necessity that will exist for Lieutenant
McLeod's directing his whole attention to the conciliation of the Arab
tribes, I think that the two Agencies in Turkish Arabia and in Persia
should remain distinct and separate from the present. Lieutenant McLeod,
of the Bombay Engineers, was under this resolution appointed by this
Government Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Captain Taylor was
nominated to the appointment of Political Agent at Bussorah on the
monthly salary of Rupees 800 with a table allowance of six* hundred
rupees per mensem. These proceedings were reported to the Government
of India on the 12th November 1822, and were entirely approved by
that authority in a letter from Mr. Secretary Swinton dated the 21st
February 1823.
265. On the 16th February 1824 Captain Taylor informed this
Government that he had lately received a letter from the Pacha, in
which His Highness requested that a British medical officer might be
deputed from Bombay to Bagdad for the purpose of being permanently
located at that place and attending on His Highness, and that he might
be furnished with a supply of arms and accoutrements sufficient for a
body of 1,000 infantry. Government declined to comply with the
former of these requests, on the ground that any benefits likely
to result from the residence with the Pacha of a British medical
officer would be more than counterbalanced by the embarrassment insepar
able from such an arrangement. In regard to the latter of the above
requests Captain Taylor was directed to
" inform the Pacha in suitable terms that it was not in the power of Government to
comply with his request."
* lliis allowance was increased from the 1st May 182-1 to Rupees 1,000 per mensem.
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